Mrs. Miniver
Director: William Wyler Run Time: 134 min. Rating: Not Rated Release Year: 1942
Starring: Greer Garson, May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Teresa Wright, Walter Pidgeon
Greer Garson delivers an Academy Award-winning performance as a British wife and mother whose courage and grace hold her family together through the terror of the World War II German Blitz — Mrs. Miniver. In this film lauded by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which eloquently captures the hopes of England and America at a time defeat by Nazi Germany seems imminent, Mrs. Kay Miniver (Garson) refuses to allow the war to destroy her family even as she huddles with her children through bombing raids, faces enemy paratroopers and fears for her husband’s life as he fights in a string of crushing defeats.